The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the
Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of Bernays' 1857 essay on katharsis, and an important introductory chapter addressing the tension in ancient literary criticism between its place in
the classical tradition and its role in contemporary endeavours to reconstruct ancient culture.
1. Andrew Laird: The value of ancient literary criticism
2. Penelope Murray: Poetic inspiration in early Greece
3. N. J. Richardson: Homeric professors in the age of the sophists
4. Elizabeth Belfiore: A theory of imitation in Plato's `Republic'
5. Stephen Halliwell: Plato and
Aristotle on the denial of tragedy
6. A. M. Dale: Ethos and dianoia: `character' and `thought' in Aristotle's Poetics
7. Jacob Bernays: Aristotle on the effect of tragedy
8. N. J. Richardson: Literary criticism in the exegetical scholia to the Iliad: a sketch
9. A. A. Long: Stoic
readings of Homer
10. Elizabeth Asmis: Epicurean poetics
11. D. A. Russell: Rhetoric and criticism
12. D. M. Schenkeveld: Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
13. Doreen C. Innes: Longinus: structure and unity
14. D. M. Schenkveld: The
structure of Plutarch's `De audiendis poetis'
15. D. A. Russell: Ars poetica
16. Bruce Gibson: Ovid on reading: reading Ovid. reception in Ovid `Tristia' II
17. T. J. Luce: Reading and response in the `Dialogues'
18. Don Fowler: The Virgil commentary of Servius
19. Thomas G.
Rosenmeyer: Ancient literary genres - a mirage?
20. Denis Feeney: Criticism ancient and modern
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Andrew Laird is Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University.
